Series Description

OFFICE FILE,
1917-1933.

Physical Description:
Box 1

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, reports, instructions, directives, financial documents and registers, clippings and other printed matter.
The original arrangement of this collection into numerical files by Petropavlovskii has been preserved, but material within
the files has been described in greater detail

MISCELLANY, 1918.

Physical Description:
Box 1

Scope and Content Note

One book

Container List

Office File, 1917-1933

Box 1., Folder 1

File 1. "Sobstvennoe delo po sluzhbe v S.-A.S.Sh. V. I. Petropavlovskogo." Official correspondence with Russian Ambassador
B. A. Bakhmeteff, Financial Agent in the U.S., S. A. Ughet, his assistant, D. P. Pertsov, Petropavlovskii's subordinate, V.
I. Zbyshevskii, and others; certificates, clippings and other papers relating to Petropavlovskii's appointment in June 1917,
including certificate signed by Secretary of State Robert Lansing recognizing his authority, 1918 November 1. Also includes reports to and correspondence with superiors in Petrograd (M. I. Skipetrov) and Omsk (G. Krasnov), list of employees
of the Russian State Control Office in the U.S.A., with group photograph, correspondence, financial reports and other documents
relating to the closing of the Office and liquidation of its affairs in 1921

Folder 2

File 2. "Svedeniia o deiatel'nosti gosudarstvennogo kontrolia v S. A. S. Sh." Official reports of the activities of the State
Control Office, with supporting documentation and correspondence

Folder 3

File 3. "Sobranie zakonopolozhenii, rasporiazhenii, pravil, instruktsii i proektov, kasaiushchikhsia Gosudarstvennogo Kontrolia,
a takzhe polozhenii ob uchrezhdeniiakh zagotovitel'nogo i torgovogo naznacheniia." Compilation of laws, instructions, orders
and rules governing the activities of the State Control Office as well as of official purchasing and trade commissions

Folder 4

File 4. "Raznye doklady i dublikaty." Includes correspondence with B. A. Bakhmeteff, S. A. Ughet, and others, minutes of meetings
of the Russkii zagotovitel'nyi komitet, 1917-1918, official rules and regulations governing the work of various Russian governmental organizations, and documents relating to
the fate of the archive and materials of the Office of Russian State Control in the U.S.A.